No. 1 game of 2012: Michigan 38, NU 31 (OT)

By BTN.com staff, 4 years ago

Rick Osentoski-US PRESSWIRE

No. 1 game of 2012: Michigan 38, NU 31 (OT)

By BTN.com staff, 4 years ago

And we’ve reached No. 1 on BTN’s top 10 games of the 2012 football season. The winner: Michigan’s 31-28 overtime victory over Northwestern. This was a wild game, one that featured five lead changes and three ties. Oh, and one of the more memorable plays of the season (Roy Roundtree’s catch above). Watch the game at 8 p.m. ET on BTN/BTN2Go. Until then, relive the back-and-forth game in this post.

Devin Gardner ran for a 1-yard touchdown in overtime and Michigan’s defense responded with a stop, giving the Wolverines a wild 38-31 win over Northwestern on Saturday. Trevor Siemian threw a 15-yard pass to Tony Jones with 3:59 left to give the Wildcats a 31-28 lead and Gardner threw an interception on the next snap.

Northwestern couldn’t pick up enough first downs to run out the clock in regulation and the Wolverines took advantage.